Many football supporters are obsessed with transfers and the idea that spending enormous sums - ‘winning’ the transfer window – is the fast track pathway to glory. Yet the list of the most expensive signings of all time demonstrates a big price tag is no guarantee of success, either on an individual or team level.
Getting the most out of any transfer is extremely difficult, no matter the cost. It won’t set pulses racing or win any banter wars on social media, but appointing the correct person to oversee the transfer process is arguably more important for a club than any one signing can possibly be.
Liverpool have proved this theory better than most, with the work of former sporting director Michael Edwards so successful that fans joke about building a statue of him outside Anfield. His successor Julian Ward oversaw the signings of Luis Diaz and Darwin Nunez but will leave the club this summer. But who will replace him at Liverpool?
